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10 Free WordPress Themes That are Simple and Sleek

By Nile Flores 14 Comments


Sometimes simple is the way to go, especially when you are a person not into all the frilly graphics that could bog down your site’s load time. Below I am listing 10 layouts that I found in the WordPress Theme Directory that are simple and sleek, worthy for those who are trying to find the perfect layout for their simple preferences.

iNove theme
The iNove theme is very sleek and contains a nicely designed navigation reminiscent of Mac. The layout has a very Web 2.0 feel too.

Carrington Blog
Carrington Blog theme is by Alex King has a great code. The layout is very clean, and set up with a great navigation that goes by hierarchy and works almost like a drop-down.

simpleX theme
The simpleX theme is an extremely basic two-column layout with tabbed navigation. This layout has a lot of potential for those who like to work with a basic theme and adapt it with their own design. This layout also has a drop-down hierarchy like the Carringtion Blog.

Titan theme
The Titan theme has a lot of clean lines and whitespace to balance out a site. Even attention to the image boards leave this layout as something anyone might want to use.

StudioPress theme
The StudioPress theme is a simple three-column layout that has a tabbed navigation. The rounded corners throughout the layout making this layout very charming.

Tropicala theme
The Tropicala theme is a very lightweight blog that contains a parent and a subparent navigation. The lines are crisp and you can either keep or interchange the main graphic for your own.

Red Time theme
The Red Time theme has a few interesting elements like a place to either put an introductory paragraph or put a featured topic and even has the courtesy of including a cute Twitter bird so people can click to follow you.

Stardust theme
The Stardust theme boasts that it is handcoded for accessibility. Its simple gradient graphics make it very clean and sleek.

Librio theme
Librio theme definitely does remind me a bit of the Mac OS X Leopard.

TweetmeBlue theme
TweetMeBlue theme is made by the same creator of Red Times. It contains a clean navigation and even makes room for those wanting to use the WP-PageNavi plugin. This layout offers a small place at the top of the site for featuring posts.

Are there other layouts you think that should be on this list that you think are simple and sleek…and of course… free?


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About Nile Flores

Nile is a 43-year old female from the greater St. Louis (Southern Illinois side) area. Nile is a mother of 1 son. She is also a web designer and developer, a graphic designer, and a public speaker, who exclusively designs and develops using WordPress. She also blogs at GoDaddy's Blog, Verpex Hosting's blog and her very personal sites, Pixelled and Nail Polish Happy.




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  1. Andrea Tiogangco says

    March 20, 2010 at 6:23 am

    This is my first time here and this post was indeed thought provoking. I find there is a gap between the no. of readers and the comments . I personally think that even though I ask questions not many come fwd to answer. And believe you me, my questions are not ‘Big Bang theory’ types.

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  2. Jannie Kruczek says

    July 7, 2010 at 8:30 am

    Thanks so much for such cool collection of wordpress templates, I’ve been searching for a while and these themes are what I trully like to use for my blog.

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  3. adsense wp themes says

    August 30, 2010 at 1:48 pm

    Great collection of free wp themes! Good job of keeping them together.

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  4. Kate Stepman says

    December 20, 2010 at 4:47 pm

    It was very interesting for me to read the post. Thanx for it. I like such themes and everything connected to this matter. I would like to read a bit more soon.

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  5. Terrance says

    November 26, 2011 at 4:56 pm

    Your article made me think. Because I upload free wordpress themes and I’ve ran across a couple that i had a problem trying to customize. Thanks for the info. I may try a couple of your themes in the future

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  6. Veronica Cervera says

    December 5, 2011 at 2:36 am

    Great themes! Looking at these WP themes makes me want to start a WP blog right away. The themes really looks amazing and can make a blog more user friendly.

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